Litodonomys
No picture of Litodonomys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Litodonomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DipodidaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivore, insectivorePBDB, for Dipodidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Dipodidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
35 occurrences of Litodonomys on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
35 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
10 formations
- Loh Formation14
- Hsanda Gol Formation9
- Suosuoquan Formation2
- Xianshuihe Formation2
- Xiejia Formation1
- Chetougou Formation1
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The named rock units Litodonomys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Litodonomys and its relatives
MioceneWhere Litodonomys and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Sinolagomys kansuensis16 sites
- Bohlinosminthus parvulus14 sites
- Amphechinus taatsiingolensis11 sites
- Heterosminthus firmus11 sites
- Sinolagomys major11 sites
- Sinolagomys ulungurensis11 sites
- Amphilagus magnus8 sites
- Tachyoryctoides pachygnatus8 sites
- Yindirtemys deflexus8 sites
- Desmatolagus7 sites
- Heosminthus borrae7 sites
- Palaeoscaptor acridens7 sites
- Prodistylomys6 sites
- Asianeomys dangheensis5 sites
- Heosminthus chimidae5 sites
- Heterosminthus5 sites
- Parasminthus tangingoli5 sites
- Plesiosminthus barsboldi5 sites
- Yindirtemys suni5 sites
- Amphechinus major4 sites
- Crocidosoricinae4 sites
- Palaeoscaptor rectus4 sites
- Palaeoscaptor tenuis4 sites
- Plesiosminthus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Litodonomys, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
10 references- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Early Miocene of Mongolia20
- Oligocene stratigraphy across the Eocene and Miocene boundaries in the Valley of Lakes (Mongolia)5
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the mid-Tertiary deposits in Danghe Area, Gansu, China2
- Dipodidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Lower Member of Xianshuihe Formation in Lanzhou Basin, Gansu, China2
- Rodent paleocommunities from the Oligocene of Ulantatal (Inner Mongolia, China)1
- Early Miocene cricetids (Rodentia) from the Junggar basin (Xinjiang, China) and their biochronological implications1
- Plesiosminthus (Zapodidae, Mammalia) from China and Mongolia: migrations to Europe1
- Discovery of Paraceratherium in the northern Junggar Basin of Xinjiang1
- The Chinese Neogene mammalian biochronology - its correlation with the European Neogene mammal zonation1
- Early Miocene mammalian fossils of Xining Basin, Qinghai1
Each of the 35 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Litodonomys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Litodonomys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Litodonomys was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDipodidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wang and Qiu 2000